Each flitch, each board, each plank can have only one ideal use. The woodworker, applying a thousand skills, must find that ideal use and then shape the wood to realize its true potential. — George Nakashima Copy Share Image
When trees mature, it is fair and moral that they are cut for man's use, as they would soon decay and return to the… — George Nakashima Copy Share Image
Each flitch, each board, each plank can have only one ideal use. The woodworker, applying a thousand skills, must find that ideal use and… — George Nakashima Copy Share Image
It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively permanent value — George Nakashima Copy Share Image
There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate closely to… — George Nakashima Copy Share Image
After a year of doing general farm work, it was quite clear to me that chickens and I were not compatible. — George Nakashima Copy Share Image
